Jamal Mashburn (created November 29, 1972) is a retired American professional basketball player. Miami was a wealthy team headed by allstars Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway and trained by Pat Riley. The inclusion of Mashburn fostered the team’s offense, as well as the team ended the season with a franchise greatest 61 matches with Mashburn averaging 13.4 points in 30 starts. In the playoffs the Heat defeated the Orlando Magic in a tough 5 matches in the initial round, followed with a grueling 7 match series triumph from the New York Knicks. Miami made its first ever Conference Finals against the defending champ Bulls, and would lose the very first three matches of the series before handling a triumph in Miami in game 4, with Mashburn scoring 17 points. The Bulls proved too much for the Heat and won the series in the 5th match in Chicago. Harms restricted Mashburn to 48 matches in the 1997-1998 season, however he began in each match he played and averaged 15.1 points a game as Miami won 55 matches before losing in a 5 game first round series to the Knicks. Mashburn began in 3 of the matches and saw his creation slide. The next season will be shortened to 50 matches as a result of league lockout, and harms again restricted Mashburn to only 23 beginnings with averages of 14.8 points a match with 6.1 rebounds a game. Miami gained the top record in the Eastern Conference, however once again lost in the very first round to The Big Apple, as Mashburn averaged 10 points in the 5 match series. The Heat won 52 games before sweeping the Detroit Pistons in the very first round of the playoffs in three matches. This set up another rematch with New York, as the Heat and Knicks fought in another grueling 7 match series. Despite scoring in groups in the Heat’s successes, including a 21 point performance in match 5, Mashburn’s scoring dropped off in the last two matches of the series, as well as the Knicks once again eliminated Miami at home.
Helen Mashburn, Robert Mashburn, Helen Mashburn, Robert Mashburn
Nicknames
Машберн, Джамал
Awards
NBA All-Rookie Team
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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Fact
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(March 24) Announced retirement after being waived by the Philadelphia 76ers. Mashburn never played for the 76ers after being acquired from the New Orleans Hornets in 2005. He averaged 19.1 points and 5.4 rebounds a game over 11 seasons with three teams. [2006]
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Selected by the Dallas Mavericks fourth overall of the 1993 NBA Draft.